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FPL 2025/26: Top 1% and top 10% leagues launched

19 July 2025 28 comments
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Fantasy Premier League’s (FPL) third and final announcement on Friday was a bit more low-key than the first two.

Earlier in the day, FPL revealed that defensive contribution points were coming. Managers are also set to get two lots of chips in 2025/26.

This one was a little less dramatic: two new leagues for those who finished in the top 1% and top 10% of overall managers in 2024/25.

WHO QUALIFIES?

Managers who finished in the top 114,319 places last season have qualified for the Top 1% 24/25 League.

Managers who finished in the top 1,143,193 places last season have qualified for the Top 10% 24/25 League.

CAN YOU QUALIFY FOR NEXT SEASON’S LEAGUES?

FPL say that you can qualify for these same leagues in 2026/27 based on your finish in the upcoming campaign.

PRIZES

It’s not just for ‘fun’ either.

There are prizes for winning each of the leagues, including Puma merchandise, a replica shirt, the EA SPORTS FC game and an FPL bundle. An “exclusive FPL certificate” is also promised…

Let’s see if Saturday brings us any closer to the launch of FPL 2025/26, be it through more rule changes or the long-awaited price reveals.

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  1. Pep Roulette
    • 7 Years
    5 hours, 38 mins ago

    Hey fam! What happened to this site?

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    1. Herger
      • 3 Years
      4 hours, 35 mins ago

      Ffs

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    2. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      4 hours, 33 mins ago

      It's a work in progress
      https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2025/07/15/exciting-changes-to-fantasy-football-scout

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      1. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 hours, 27 mins ago

        Yes Mark (FPL Putin) is leaking updates to all his mates. It's so obvious at this point.

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        1. Sheffield Wednesday
          • 5 Years
          4 hours, 18 mins ago

          ?

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          1. Grounderz
            • 13 Years
            1 hour, 6 mins ago

            Don't mind him all this talk. He just needs someone to take his virginity away so he can feel much better on his perspective.

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  2. Sheffield Wednesday
    • 5 Years
    5 hours, 25 mins ago

    "Let’s see if Saturday brings us any closer to the launch of FPL 2025/26, be it through more rule changes or the long-awaited price reveals"

    Given FFS had advanced notice of rule changes I expect they already know the answer to this.

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    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 hours, 26 mins ago

      Haha, I've just done my first ever upwards reply fail. This ruddy new site man!

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      1. Sheffield Wednesday
        • 5 Years
        4 hours, 19 mins ago

        I don't think it was 'leaks to his mates' but rather official information sharing so that sites like FFS would have tools ready to analyse defensive stats under the new rules.

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  3. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 hours, 25 mins ago

    Really interesting episode of above average FPL tonight.

    Clearances matter by far the most for defenders with this rule change. For midfielders, recoveries is the important one.

    They're really help get players over the line and hit 10/12 CBIT/CBIT-R

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  4. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 hours, 19 mins ago

    The top 1% of anything is pretty good, right?

    But especially in a game with 11 million players (most of whom just copy FPL Harry or blindly follow an algorithm) should that now be the new top 10K?

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    1. Silecro
      • 7 Years
      4 hours, 16 mins ago

      Yeah, top 1% is rougly top 100k, so definitely very good ranking nowadays

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    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      4 hours, 13 mins ago

      Top 10K is the new top 10K.

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      1. Sheffield Wednesday
        • 5 Years
        4 hours, 12 mins ago

        Isn't that just the old top 10k?

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        1. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          3 hours, 52 mins ago

          Sounds like 10K is the new top 1K, which is ridiculous.

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          1. Sheffield Wednesday
            • 5 Years
            3 hours, 46 mins ago

            Just as an aside

            SI prefix for kilo [thousand] is lowercase k, unlike Mega [million] which is a capital M.

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            1. TorresMagic™
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • Has Moderation Rights
              • 16 Years
              3 hours, 18 mins ago

              Fair enough, I was going along with the original question.

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              1. Sheffield Wednesday
                • 5 Years
                2 hours, 41 mins ago

                As someone ranked #15 in the all-time ranks, which league do you think will be harder to win, the top 1% with better quality players, or the top 10% with far more players who may randomly have a standout season?

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                1. TorresMagic™
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • Has Moderation Rights
                  • 16 Years
                  2 hours, 35 mins ago

                  You know the answer, if you said the next 9% as the 2nd group, then there would be a discussion. You'll have a great chance of winning FPL winning those.

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                  1. Sheffield Wednesday
                    • 5 Years
                    2 hours, 27 mins ago

                    Yeah I misunderstood the criteria, mistakenly thinking those in the top 1% league would be excluded from the top10% league.

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                    1. Sheffield Wednesday
                      • 5 Years
                      2 hours, 14 mins ago

                      Whoever wins could qualify for duplicate prizes not to mention the outright league prizes.

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    3. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      1 hour, 31 mins ago

      Top 1% is excellent; though if you removed dead teams and people who don’t play every week the entire season I suspect that top 1% is much smaller

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  5. Silecro
    • 7 Years
    5 hours, 12 mins ago

    Im playing for 8 years, never finished top 50k, but managed to finish top 6k last year, mainly due ro chips usage and monstrous Glasner AM (2X), so subjectivelly can say that AM chip will be missed..but still looking forward to the changes!

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    1. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      4 hours, 13 mins ago

      I'm looking forward to selecting a fantasy team that more closely resembles a real team with a couple of CB and one ore two DMs. No more four LB and five AM. That is provided they still price purely defensive players lower than more attacking players.

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  6. Grounderz
    • 13 Years
    4 hours, 59 mins ago

    Question. While the announcement mentioned defenders generally benefit from CBIT, does CBIT also apply to midfielders and forwards?

    I read in the subsequent paragraphs of the announcement, and it said that “in addition to the CBIT, midfielders and forwards also collect points for ball recoveries”.

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    1. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      3 hours, 57 mins ago

      Yes but the requirements to gain two points are slightly different.
      https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4361991/whats-new-in-202526-fantasy-defensive-contributions

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      1. Grounderz
        • 13 Years
        1 hour, 5 mins ago

        Cheers!

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  7. Evasivo
    • 15 Years
    55 mins ago

    Is there a dark mode, so much white on this new interface:(

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